The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...

Despite being conducted outside Africa and focusing on a primate far from the evolutionary lineage of Homo sapiens, the study ...

Using dentists' tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared ...

Since the discovery, researchers spent more than two years meticulously studying the remains of a million-year-old face. They ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

In a system of caves in the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain, nearly 50 years of systematic archaeological excavations have ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

A human skull fragment discovered at the Sima del Elefante site at Atapuerca has become the oldest face in Western Europe.